> This occurrence is a known issue in python itself. A cheap workaround is to
> explicitly `import decimal` before setting the locale, at startup, even
> though we don't need it directly.

The issue is in Python itself, and IIRC the investigation I carried out some time ago for the exact same issue in moovida, it's not likely to be fixed until Python 3, which is why developers have to live with it and work around it.

Hi lipstick! Thanks for your bug report. The bug you describe has already been reported by someone else, so I will mark this bug as a duplicate of the other one. Please continue to report any bugs you may find in software-center. Thanks again for your help!